From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 13 08:21:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA00574 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 08:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA00545 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 08:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from pencil-box.village.org [10.0.0.22] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xguJx-0006VF-00; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 09:21:41 -0700 Received: from pencil-box.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pencil-box.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA00361; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:23:13 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199712130523.WAA00361@pencil-box.village.org> To: "John S. Dyson" Subject: Re: OS Ports Cc: jamil@acroal.com (J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect), jasone@canonware.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:19:39 EST." <199712110119.UAA01319@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199712110119.UAA01319@dyson.iquest.net> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:23:12 -0700 From: "M. Warner Losh" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199712110119.UAA01319@dyson.iquest.net> "John S. Dyson" writes: : I am definitely not flaming you, but -current is stable enough as a : base. There will be improvements and enhancements along the way. : If we started with -stable, it is unlikely that the Sparc port would : ever catch up to the X86 port. It is much more likely that you can get deltas integrated into -current for something this "radical" than for -stable. -stable is supposed to not change much, and doing a port to a new h/w platform will likely require a lot of change. -current can cope with code reorgs and the like, but -stable can not. Warner